timef 10/05/2025
- The Reinforcement Gap — or why some AI skills improve faster than others techcrunch.com2025-10-05 23:00:00
AI tasks that work well with reinforcement learning are getting better fast — and threatening to leave the rest of the industry behind.
- The Young Minds App wants to protect and educate children online and will show its tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-10-05 22:25:00
Young Minds gives parents control over what their kids do on the internet, while also protecting their children’s privacy and teaching them good online habits.
- A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses techcrunch.com2025-10-05 05:10:12
Known for its blazing fast internet and home to some of the world’s biggest tech giants, South Korea has also faced a string of data breaches and cybersecurity lapses that has struggled to match the pace of its digital ambitions.
- Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize techcrunch.com2025-10-05 04:57:33
Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
- If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs techcrunch.com2025-10-05 04:05:28
New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested.
- Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated techcrunch.com2025-10-05 03:10:05
Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the U.S. government.
- Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training techcrunch.com2025-10-05 02:19:42
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
- Instacrops will demo its water-saving, crop-boosting AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-10-05 00:30:00
Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI to help farmers cut water use by 30%.
- Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls techcrunch.com2025-10-05 00:26:50
OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora.
- Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos techcrunch.com2025-10-04 23:50:07
The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing granular location data from users' profile photos.
